About 50 political parties may be de-registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, when the new Electoral Act passed by the National Assembly comes into effect.

Getting this interview done came with its own peculiar circumstances. After ceaselessly speaking with Kayode Idowu, a colleague and Chief Press Secretary to Professor Attahiru Jega, national chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and agreeing on an appointment for Thursday, Sunday Vanguard landed in Abuja earlier that day only to be told the appointment might no longer hold. Shocking!

Federal character or zoning doesn’t favour anybody except the under-developed. A developed community wouldn’t mind who comes out as long as he is qualified to rule. We don’t need zoning. We don’t need federal character.

ORGANISERS of the northern political summit under the aegis of G20 (19 northern states and Abuja), yesterday, warned that the country risked a deeper crisis if the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, prevented Dr. Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the presidency in the 2011 elections on the grounds of zoning.

DECORUM was abandoned by public figures, yesterday, as the Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, Ogun State Governor, Olugbenga Daniel and the Minister of Works, Senator Sanusi Daggash, engaged themselves in war of words at the site of the opening of the Ota Bridge along the Lagos_Abeokuta Express Way.